Mihir Bose: Will the appointment of a regulator solve the debt crisis?
What are the chances that the present debt crisis in football will lead to a regulator being appointed to administer the game?
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Mihir Bose: Will the Red Knights plan to buy Manchester United go the way of Project Merlin?
A walk down memory lane is not always a game for the old. But it can be very useful for the football fan.
It is this thought that makes me ask: will the Red Knights plan to buy Manchester United go the way of Project Merlin?
Andrew Warshaw: Football takes backward step
By Andrew Warshaw
It will go down as the day football’s lawmakers decided they knew better than fans, players, managers and referees alike. And you had to be there to believe it.
Mihir Bose: “Who has been the greatest manager in British football?”
Just hours before Sir Alex Ferguson won yet another trophy, when Manchester United lifted the Carling Cup beating Aston Villa, there was a very interesting programme on ESPN Classic.
What European football needs to learn from Charles Dickens
By David Owen
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Will the 2010 World Cup Finals change lives in South Africa?
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By David Owen
Passion. Colour. Excitement. And, of course, cash.
The World Cup will bring all of these to South Africa next June, but will it change the lives of people like Cynthia in any meaningful way?
Mihir Bose: The football child has much to learn from the Olympic parent
The child outstripping the father in any sphere of life is always news.
Olympic Games always bring up this comparison for, after all, it was the success of the 1924 Olympic football tournament that prompted the French to organise a football World Cup for professional players.
Mihir Bose: Football has been allowed to get away with a very peculiar system when it comes to paying its debts
There is a story going round the many lawyers, accountants and other professionals who advise football clubs. The story goes as follows. Some years ago, when Leicester City were in financial trouble and being hounded by the Revenue for non payment of taxes, Keith Vaz, the local MP, rang Gordon Brown then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mihir Bose: Manchester United success can never hide ownership frustrations
History is not always a good precedent for judging the present. But, in the case of Manchester United, history of its ownership and the fans reaction to different owners, tell us a great deal of why the club is once again in turmoil.
Rodney Marsh: John Terry is a rat but must stay as England captain
Anytime you have the kind of turmoil which has come from the revelations concerning John Terry and Wayne Bridge it, without a shadow of doubt, causes massive disruption within a squad.
There have been many cases of similar disgusting wrong-doings over the years which have led to training ground punch ups and eventual player transfers in an effort to keep the camaraderie alive in a sport that depends hugely on team spirit.
Mihir Bose: John Terry episode proves we are wrong to think footballers can be great role models
The story of footballers, their wives and girlfriends and what they get up to is always news and can have dramatic impact, as the following story illustrates. It is the night before a crucial England World Cup match. An England player has been told stories of his wife’s antics and he is quite frantic to know whether these stories are true.
Andrew Warshaw: Every fair-minded fan should protest against Togo ban
Whatever happened to compassion, understanding and taking each case on its merits?
The recent decision by the Africa’s football confederation to ban Togo from the next two editions of the African Nations Cup following their withdrawal from the tournament in Angola was so mean-spirited it bordered on the immoral.
Alan Hubbard: Karren Brady is just the woman to get West Ham into the Olympic Stadium
As a long-time West Ham fan – I hesitate to say supporter because I am no longer a regular at Upton Park, but still cherish and relish the memories the halcyon days of Moore, Hurst, Peters and the cultured stewardship of Ron Greenwood – the recent appointment of Karren Brady as vice-chairman has me blowing bubbles again.
Mihir Bose: Financial transparency is only way to stop English football’s bung culture
We all know that the two great certainties of life are taxes and death. But in football there is a third: bungs.
Andrew Warshaw: Is Wenger gambling with his future?
Priorities, priorities. Is Arsene Wenger beginning to trust his own judgement to the point of becoming self-delusional? And more alarmingly, are Arsenal fans beginning to lose faith in their beloved manager?
Not for the first time, Wenger’s decision to send out a weakened team to play Stoke City in the FA Cup at the weekend came back to bite him on the backside.